Please forgive my absence here on short for molybdenum. It’s been a busy few months! That’s not a great excuse for not writing, but I intend to make up for it by enlightening you on what exactly I’ve been up to…

2.) The BIG move back home to Colorado! That meant completing our North Carolina “bucket list” and saying goodbye to our wonderful friends there. We enjoyed farm dinners, barbeques, and finally made it to the Outer Banks.

A life of scavenging has its shabby, less appealing parts: rusty nails, moldy wood, paint chips–yikes! But on occasion, a priceless gem emerges from the heap. The Find of the Week features some of my favorites.

Abandoned doors

old doors and shutters

They’re just begging to be repurposed!

Besides the many that I have cut up to make various pieces of art, I also transformed this beaut by attaching brackets to the bottom to make a free-standing display piece.

The WhAt’s nEW section highlights some of my most recent creations. This time, I’ve been busy making…

Reminder blocks!

What’s a reminder block you ask? Well, if I had a nickel for every time I forgot my lunch, or forgot to take out the garbage, or… I hate to admit… turn off the stove… well, you know how the saying goes. That’s why I started making these cute and very useful pieces!

Check ’em out!

HAND-PAINTED REMINDER BLOCKS

They are small enough to hang wherever: at your desk, by the door for right before you leave the house, or anywhere else you can think of. Oh! And I got a lot of these ideas from family and friends, so please keep reminder ideas coming!

A life of scavenging has its shabby, less appealing parts: rusty nails, moldy wood, paint chips–yikes! But on occasion, a priceless gem emerges from the heap. The Find of the Week features some of my favorites.

Dumpster drawer knob

I used this cutie to adorn a combination flower and coat hanger. Voilà!

For those of you haven’t heard, the all-time favorite holiday market around these parts, Rock and Shop is canceled! But fear not! The Dtown Market is hosting another holiday market in its stead, and get this: on the SAME day, and at the SAME location! What does that mean for you? You can still come by and shop til your heart’s content!

Short for Molybdenum?? What on earth? I’m gonna let you in on a little secret… For some, “Molly” is a nickname for Margaret, sometimes Shakespeare referred to prostitutes as “Mollys,” and based on my 29 years of experience, I would venture to say that about 40% of all Labrador Retrievers are named “Molly.” In my special little case though, Molly is short for Molybdenum.

Well… that’s at least what I thought for a long time after my parents nonchalantly mentioned that one day. But you know when you tell someone a joke, and at the end of it if the poor soul is gullible enough to continue believing you, and for the sake of that poor chump who will inevitably begin spreading rumors about the false information, you usually end with “Just kidding!”? Well, I’m pretty sure my parents failed to “Just kidding!” that joke until many years later.

I mean, it made sense to me! My dad used to work in a molybdenum mine for Lord’s sake! And my middle name is Bridget, so my nickname, Molly B. really isn’t too far of a leap to make from molyb-denum! So, yeah, I/this chump believed them.

Anyway, no hard feelings guys. If anyone can appreciate a good joke, it’s me. And look, now it’s made a good story, and I’m even not too scarred by the incident to go ahead and name my blog after it.

What with a 6-month stint in Tanzania and an unforgettable sojourn in France, it’s kind of hard to beat a year like 2011. As it turns out though, 2012 has also proven itself noteworthy.

Last year, Brian and I kept a blog that covered many of our observations and experiences while living in Tanzania, East Africa. I enjoyed writing it so much at the time and have missed it since, that now, with a whole other–exciting for different reasons–year almost behind me, I thought it’d be a good time to dust off my keyboard and once again enter the blogosphere.

The main purpose of this new assignment is provide a fluid account of the happenings of my business, SCaVenGeR deSigNs, which took flight earlier this year, as well as to relay some interesting “scavenger” stories. I don’t have an official website yet, so this will help fulfill that role too for the time being.

This year has been full of new gardening adventures, more travels, and ♥love♥ abound, so this blog will also serve the purpose of capturing (and sharing) some of the more banal, yet inspiring aspects of my quaint little life.

So whether you’re here to peruse my product line, get an update on my life, or browse for inspiration, I hope you enjoy short for molybdenum.

p.s. I actually started this a while ago, so get ready for some retroactive posts!